Welcome to the fourth issue of the NEMO newsletter. Since the last meeting in Brussels in April 2013 a lot has changed in the NEMO project, both in personnel and direction. As part of the move away from bumetanide we are drafting the end of trial report for NEMO-1 and it is hoped that this will be completed shortly We would also like to congratulate Dr Johanneke Harteman who was recently conferred with her PhD. Johanneke will be missed from the NEMO team and we wish her luck in her new post. We welcome on board Ms Louise Jones to the NEMO trial management team..

With this issue we say a final good bye from the NEMO project to Havinder Hara and welcome on board Louise Jones. Louise will be based in University College London and will helping with the trial co-ordination.

Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT) was offically launched in Cork University Maternity Hospital on the 20th September 2013. Funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) this centre under the directorship of Profs Geraldine Boylan and Louise Kenny will be the first centre for fetal and neonatal research in Ireland.